So today we're going to do two things: one, we're going to fix the Joy-Con drift on our
Nintendo Switch for about $15. It's super cheap and super quick. And the second thing
is I'm going to give a quick little studio tour of where I film my videos. This video
is sponsored by Omaze, but more on that later. But I'm not the one who is going to teach
you how to fix the Joy-Con drift, we have a special guest today. You might remember
her from our very difficult Black Shark phone.
-[Cambry] Yep, still recovering. But willing to give it a shot.
-Cambry, what is Joy-Con drift?
-Okay, that is when this joystick kind of wears out and starts to drift to the left.
Like it just kind of tends to lean this direction. Then your character, in my case Link, starts
to drift, and it makes it challenging when I'm like going up a path, or I'm on the side
of a cliff, or I'm trying to fight someone. It just messes everything up.
-And we can't have that. So today we're going to fix it. It's actually very inexpensive.
It's only like $15. And like we've gotten hundreds and hundreds of hours out of our
Nintendo Switch. So we're not going to complain about it, we're just going to fix it. But
first let me give you a quick little tour of the studio. I've never done like a little
studio tour like this. It's kind of a cozy little room here. But I have my lights mounted
up here on a DJ scaffold. All these lights I got for really cheap off of Amazon. And
I think there's like five of them positioned in a circle around the room. And then the
tripod, which is right here, goes up into some barn door rails, which I've attached
to the DJ scaffold with some c-clamps...kind of, you know, jerry-rigging the whole thing
together.
Then I do have foam on the walls to kind of minimize the sound so there's no like echo
in the room. We'll get to the camera in just a second. Inside of this closet I have a tool
chest. And these are a collection of chargers that I've, you know, accumulated over the
years. People always ask what I end up doing with all of my phones that are left over after
my tests. And I turn most of them into big screen TVs for little squirrel houses.
So coming around the desk...oh, actually, so this is a piece of paper in a giant roll
that I just mounted to the side of my desk. I think I got this at like IKEA or something.
So anytime the desk gets dirty, I can just unroll this piece of paper and have a new
white clean surface to work on. You can see I've kind of collected some Mohs hardness
papers.
And then right here...so I use the GH5 to film. The lights in here are kind of bright.
But what I want to show you is this screen over here gives me a live feed of everything
that I'm working on. So if I move something here, it's moving on screen over here. And
you can see it has some like green dots around the edges. That just is telling me that everything
is in focus. And here is the back side view of the DJ scaffolding, the barn door rails,
the tripod, which I can adjust up and down, and slide left and right, and then I can play
with the lens right here on the end. And we have phones in various states of disrepair.
Now this camera here is for the front facing, so you can kind of see what it looks like
when I'm actually recording something where I need to be visible. When there's a camera
back here, that's being displayed on the second monitor. Sometimes getting the perfect shot
for your content is tricky, but this is the set up that works well for me, and it was
relatively inexpensive. I didn't need to go out and buy tons and tons of tons of equipment.
It's a DJ scaffold, some barn door rails, and a tripod hung upside down. So hopefully
that doesn't ruin some of the magic for you. But I think we should get started with the
Joy-Con.
-Let's get started.
[Intro]
-So a long time ago I made a video on how to turn your Joy-Con Switch clear. So if you're
wondering why mine's a different color, that is why. So this replacement kit surprisingly
only costs $15, and it even came with a bunch of tools. So I'm not going to use my own tool
set, we're going to use the tools that came with the joysticks and see if they are any
good.
There are 4 screws on the back cover, and these are tri-point screws, meaning they are
not a Philips head, they are like a Y shaped almost.
-Once you take out the 4 screws, then you open it up with your handy-dandy pry tool.
Yes. And with this being transparent, it makes it a little easier to know you're not going
to hurt anything. You can see exactly where your pry tool is.
-You're welcome.
-Then you open it like a book. There we go. And it looks like someone's been here before
because the battery's already loose and that's the next step. Whoa.
-Looks good. I always keep a bunch of extra pry tools here off to the side. And so I'm
going to focus this right now to make sure that the charging port area is focused. And
now she is good to go.
-Okay, so then I'm going to slide this little guy like a little Lego. Then I take my Philips
screwdriver and I get those three...see they are like gold screws. One, two, three. Now
you're going to lift out this little covering that holds the battery pack. But it's still
attached so you just open it up and keep it close by.
-Phew.
-Okay, then this part gets a little tricky to me, but I'm sure I'll be fine. You have
to like unhook these ribbon cables. So you don't rip them. That would be bad. You have
to unlock them. So this one, you like flip a switch. Flip the third switch This guy should
be free.
-It's been a while since I've done this so she's teaching me.
-Free. Switching tools up. Okay, and now this one should come out. We're replacing this
piece anyway. There we go. So there's this little ribbon cable that's like weaved across
here with this little plastic piece. So I'm just going to gently get it back out a bit.
And now, there are two more screws. This is the guy that was making me die.
-Sure, blame it on the controller. There is a gasket underneath the joystick thing that
we need to leave in there because the new joystick does not come with the same gasket.
So we can just toss away the old one and, let's grab the new one.
-Okay. So it actually comes with two which is nice because I play a lot of Zelda. Might
be doing this again.
-Right now only one of our joy-cons is drifting though, so we're just going to the left Joy-Con.
The right Joy-Con is pretty similar, just a few different connections in a few different
spots cuz there's different hardware inside each of the controllers.
-Reverse the steps we just did. Fold this ribbon cable back a little bit. And by fold,
I don't mean actually fold. Like just lift it. Alright, it's in place. Take your Phillips
screwdriver, place the two screws back. Righty tighty. Okay, now that that's secure we can
put our ribbons back in place.
-The trick to getting the ribbon cables back in is making sure that the metal tweezers
don't touch the gold contacts on the end of the ribbons because those can scratch off
and make the Joy-Con nonfunctional again. And we have to line the little tiny ribbon
up with the very small little slot in the board. And once that's done, we can take the
black little latch and latch it down into place.
-Okay. Cool. Is it killing you that it's taking me so long and you could do this in two seconds?
-I mean...of course not!
-Hey. Beginners gotta start somewhere. Okay. So much better than the Shark.
-The spring can shoot off into oblivion, so make sure you know where that's at all times.
-Snug as a bug. Put this little Lego back. Now, righty tighty. One screw.
-Everything is installed. She has the final screws in place. Now it's time to see if Link
still runs off cliffs or not. Is it working Cambry?
-Sure is.
-Not falling off any cliffs?
-Nope. Going to the right. Going to the left. Going uphill.
-I do have one question for you though. Why do you have two screws left over?
-Did you plant those?
-No! [Laughing] Where do they go?!
-This had...you put these here.
-I did not. We're going to have to re-watch the footage and see where those came from.
But other than that, Cambry did a great job. Maybe they did roll across the desk because
I do have a lot of projects going on, so we can't blame it entirely on Cambry.
-I think it's a different project.
-It is pretty funny though. Oh, they came from this.
-Okay. Yeah, let's clarify that. You made me look bad.
-You want to clarify Cambry?
-Yeah, the screws came from the bag in case yours broke or something. Backup screws. Oh
gol.
-Still pretty funny though. Anyway, we were successful. Cambry, which was the hardest
part?
-Getting the ribbon cables in. That was tricky for me because I was so worried about scratching
them. I didn't scratch them. Long live Zelda.
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And Cambry will be happy to answer them for you.
-I will not be fixing anyone else's. This is a one-time deal.
-Remember how we end off?
-Thanks a ton for watching. We'll see you around.